Evaluation of the Idle time of Single-Chain and Double-Chain Overhead Power Lines of 6–10 kV by Methods of Queuing Theory

The aim of this work is to substantiate the idle time evaluation of the overhead power line (OPL) according to the reliability indicators of its main elements using the probability value of the overhead power line availability factor. Statistical studies of the 17 OPL were performed to achieve this goal. The results of the statistical data processing made it possible to consider over-head lines as objects of a multiple action, and their failure and recovery flows as the primitive Poissonian flows. The calculation of the Wilcoxon and Pearson criteria confirmed the uniformi-ty of the statistical material both in terms of failure times and recovery time for all 17 studied OPL, which allowed combining the uniform statistical data into two representative samples, ac-cording to failures and recoveries, for the generalized district OPL and calculate its reliability indicators. The most significant result is the justification of applying queuing theory methods to evaluate the idle time of 6–10 kV single-chain and double-chain of overhead lines. The signifi-cance of the results obtained consists in that a simple engineering method is proposed to evalu-ate the availability factor of the overhead power line according to the reliability indicators of its main elements, which allows predicting the idle time of the overhead line for the upcoming cal-endar year of its operation. The newly obtained availability factors of the main overhead line elements can be used in the overhead power lines’ design.